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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I pay more attention to new music than probably the average person, and even so, a 6Music host will say 'coming up we've got some Wobbly Ghosts, new music from Mr Grub, and a little treat from Dave On Fire' and for all I know they could easily be making all of these artists up.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Last night the BBC’s Newsnight booked the former spokesperson to a war criminal to call UK PM Andy Burnham a liar about Russian interference in the Brexit vote: Putin mouthpiece Sergei Markov. What was he supposed to say? Yeah, hands up, you got us.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

So every grotty piece of unsaleable clothing reduces the amount of money generated by the charity.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Recently chatted with a volunteer at a local Oxfam shop who bemoaned the costs of getting rid of donations that they couldn’t sell. Seems like it is a big problem.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Brittin so far absolutely fucking hopeless. There are countless tech and discussion podcasts in the private sector. You and Yours was exceptional public interest journalism.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏

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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights

Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In the same way I don’t think that Badenoch coming out in support of Heathrow third runway will do the Conservatives any favours in London or the South East.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The World at One feature today uncritically parroted the absurd “levelling the playing field” justification for billionaire mega-donations..

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Yet another begging bowl email from the Labour Party this morning. ‘There is no pretending about the scale of what we’re up against.’ If only you guys had a massive majority in Parliament and could pass legislation to protect our democracy from ‘what we’re up against’.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think this is great. To the despair of my wife (English graduate) I have never “got it”. I saw Hamlet at Stratford in the early 80s and the American tourist sitting next to me turned to her companion and said “Say, did you understand any of that?” I could relate..

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Someone might mention to him that arts undergraduates subsidise scientists as science degrees are more expensive to offer. Beyond that I just don’t understand the antagonism - with the Conservatives it was because they were an ideological threat, with Labour? A hangover from Blue Labour presumably..

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's hard to think of anything less British than the morons doing this to the heroic RNLI

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I just think that risking your life at a moment's notice to save people you've never met in exchange for no money is a better expression of patriotism than dressing up like a Poundshop paramilitary and intimidating families with kids trying to get onto a ferry.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

because Justin Webb is openly and brazenly right wing he is untouchable at the "woke left wing" BBC

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think she would have been outraged and responded as any respectable, non-extremist politician would normally do. Also most of the PMs since then - with the possible exceptions of Johnson and Starmer.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

If someone acts on their 'concerns' by attacking people in their homes and by biting and throwing rocks at cops, no one should assess if those concerns are 'legitimate' or not. That violent behaviour waives any claim to 'legitimacy'. The phrase comes across as justifying violence, not condeming it.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Alternative for Deutschland is formally classified as ‘far right extremist organization’ by Germany’s domestic intelligence service So why is BBC news calling alternative AfD ‘hard right’?

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

There haven’t been many bright spots for Gloucestershire fans this season. Feared the worst on the first day - great to turn the game round and wrap things up on the last day.

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Mark Wallace @wallaceme.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The police should shut this down as soon as it even starts to be attempted.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Andy Burnham is going to have to do a whole lot better than Keir Starmer in responding to masked fascists on the streets.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I will wondered about that as well. Would have had to have changed a lot since I was there..

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A longstanding issue in governance of the UK is that regulators are simply toothless. OfCom is a great example. We have a regulatory system where regulators don’t regulate.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

He is class. Think he did well in the last series against England in Pakistan.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The whole premise is ludicrous. I wasn’t serious..

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Spent a few hours at Lords today. Saud Shakeel played really well - some lovely shots - and shame he didn’t make it to a hundred. Hope that at some point Pakistan can produce a team capable of challenging England. The eras of Imran, Wasim, and Waqar seem a long time ago.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Also about what works.Very clear that the private sector will not deliver the government’s housing targets with or without the relaxation of planning. Agree social democratic governments should deal with market failures - this one has been very slow to identify the problem let alone fix it.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Yes - I’d never thought of Michel Barnier as a Donald Trump figure but maybe he’s on to something..

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The chances of the funding model being addressed seem slim. And if so this is a gift to the far right who will be delighted if Burnham does nothing. Really disappointing and short sighted of unions as you say - workers’ rights wouldn’t last long under a Reform government.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The BBC gave Reform’s autumn conference largely uncritical, at times gushing coverage last year. It will be interesting to see if this changes this time.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/08/2026

This is absolute rookie stuff. There is just absolutely no way that a headline like this should ever make the BBC News website. It being the weekend is no excuse, either: political news *always* drops on Saturday night, for the Sunday papers.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It was one of the best one day games I have seen. Looked like that game had gone only for Holman and Helm to pull it back. People were leaving because it looked like Durham would win but the atmosphere at the end was amazing.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Enjoyed reading this. A lot to think about including that Thatcher wanted UK manufacturing to thrive but the policy choices and external factors meant that this didn’t happen.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Strong team on paper. Looking forward to seeing them at Radlett on Sunday although will be supporting Middlesex.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There must be hundreds of care workers in her constituency potentially impacted by these proposals. Looking after poor, elderly and unwell people. Their lives will become harder if their carers have to leave the UK. Why pretend that this is somehow needed or a good outcome?

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When you don't listen for *years* to what loads of us who actually understand universities say, when you listen to a load of know-nothing frauds from think tanks and consultants and media loudmouths instead, this is the university disaster you make. Govts could have listened. They didn't.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

It looks really interesting. And you have to admire the ambition of anyone seeking to explain voting patterns by reference to rock type.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This sounds like the geographical determinism that some geographers were still wedded to in the late 1970s when I started my traditional geography degree. I’m surprised that it wasn’t mentioned at the time..

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I’ve really liked some of his his journalism although not a News Agents fan. But this is really poor. It isn’t “disputed” that lives have been wrecked by Long Covid whatever his badly researched piece might suggest.

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Lowest number of graduate job openings since 2020. This is a core labour market problem that universities cannot fix, but routinely get the blame for.

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UK graduate job openings fall to lowest level since pandemic

Indeed’s findings point to challenge facing Andy Burnham to boost youth unemployment and cut welfare bill

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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today over 3500 GPs will have qualified to join the workforce There is a huge problem, there aren’t enough jobs, the DHSC & NHSE are failing to fix GP employment They have cut GP practice funding by 20% in 10yrs @andyburnham.bsky.social @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social your issue to fix now

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I have no idea what he thought. Quite possibly someone told him that being hostile to immigrants was a good policy and would make him popular. And that pretending that raise the colours was about patriotism was a good faith take that showed his man of the people credentials.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Starmer’ failure to acknowledge what this was really about was appalling. Worse than the island of strangers speech. Indefensible and terrible politics. On a par with his initial non-reaction to the Tommy Robinson event. Whatever Burnham gets wrong I’d hope that it won’t be comparable to this.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Good way to describe him. Not Stalin but abhorrent in his own way. Revelled in indiscriminate violence. And thought at the end of his life that Stalin was “too coarse”.

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Hugh Stokes @hughstokes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Would like to understand what “looking at” the issue would involve.

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

ft.com

Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform

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